Sentences with phrase «exploration missions with»

Its Cabo da Roca is the famed location of many sea voyages and exploration missions with spectacular vertical cliffs rising up out of the sea.

As a member of the engineering staff, her research work encompassed a multidisciplinary approach to the development and testing of analytical instruments for planetary exploration missions with the focus on transitioning fundamental scientific research and early technological demonstrations toward breadboard and brassboard instrumentation development.

Right now at 5.15 AM on the 2nd it's just about time to head out on another surf exploration mission with the crew.

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«It conducted six successive rendezvous and dockings with spacecraft Shenzhou - 8, Shenzhou - 9, and Shenzhou - 10 and completed all assigned missions, making important contributions to China's manned space exploration activities,» said a memo that China submitted in May 2017 to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

Soft robots, made of a material that allows them to switch between hard and soft states so as to squeeze through small spaces, have the potential to assist with space explorations, break ground in the way surgeries are performed and complete certain rescue missions.

PT Scientists is aiming to launch the mission with a Falcon 9 rocket from Elon Musk's space exploration company SpaceX in the first quarter of 2019, according to Bohme.

Our maiden Mission Approval establishes an important precedent for the private sector to engage in peaceful space exploration, bringing with it monumental implications for the advancement of technology, science, research, and development, as well as commercial ventures that expand Earth's economic sphere.

So, for instance, with the discovery of the New World and the rush of Catholic missions to far - flung lands, many Catholics understood that they were living in a new era of exploration, industry, education, art, literature, devotion, science, and philosophy.

Soft teethable body with multiple textures Features bright colors, crinkle fabric and rattle Easy grip shape Soft friendly animal is great for tactile exploration Ages birth and up TOMY's mission i...

Return to Mars The UK's involvement with Martian exploration has not ended with Beagle 2 and the British Space Agency is a key participant in the forthcoming ESA ExoMars missions to the Red Planets planned for 2016 and 2018.

The Administration's space exploration plans got off to a controversial start with the Augustine Commission and the decision to end the Constellation program and refocus on robotic science missions.

The names pay homage to the underworld mythology, pioneering space missions, historic pioneers who crossed new horizons in exploration, and scientists and engineers associated with Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

Proposals were selected in collaboration with NASA's Space Technology and Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorates.

«With these system concept studies, we are taking the next steps to develop capabilities needed to send humans deeper into space than ever before, and ultimately to Mars, while testing new techniques to protect Earth from asteroids,» William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate.

In the past, space exploration programs have adopted two main strategies in supplying mission crews with resources: a carry - along approach, where all vehicles and resources travel with the crew at all times — as on the Apollo missions to the moon — and a «resupply strategy,» in which resources are replenished regularly, such as by spaceflights to the International Space Station.

Robotic exploration drives our interest in doing follow - up missions with humans.

Its lunar exploration program is also increasingly science - driven, with a sample return mission scheduled for next year and the first ever landing on the far side of the moon planned for 2018.

Witze noted that one of her stories «allowed me to explore the rich history of Pluto exploration in advance of the historic New Horizons mission flyby — with the added twist of a brother / sister pair of researchers, each of whom played leading roles in uncovering the secrets of Pluto.»

In addition to these technologies, STMD is partnering with NASA's Human Exploration Operations Mission Directorate and the Science Mission Directorate to solicit Mars 2020 payloads responsive to NASA's Strategic Knowledge Gaps.

Also press conference clips featuring Cornell's Steve Squyres, principal investigator for the science instruments on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission, and Harvard's Andrew Knoll, a biologist with the Mars missions.

The relative thinness of the ice shell at the south pole could also allow a future space exploration mission to gather data, in particular using radar, which would be far more reliable and easy to obtain than with the 40 km thick ice shell initially calculated.

Douglas Cooke, a recently retired NASA associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, opened his remarks with: «What Gentry said.»

The president's sweeping endorsement of research, however, carefully avoids the fact that his 2013 budget would cut funding for NASA's Mars exploration program by nearly one - third and end the country's role in two Mars missions planned jointly with the European Space Agency for later in the decade.

«This mission has inspired people across the world with the excitement of exploration and what humankind can achieve.»

The cost - capped New Frontiers program, with $ 850 million set out for the mission and about $ 150 million for the launch, is the largest planetary exploration line that NASA opens to outside competition and leadership.

In response to the 1993 failure of the Mars Observer mission — a billion - dollar, decade - in - the - making probe that mysteriously lost contact with ground controllers just before it was scheduled to go into orbit around the planet — NASA administrator Daniel Goldin decided to shift to smaller, less expensive spacecraft and create a sustained exploration campaign by sending one or two probes to Mars at every launch opportunity.

Such a mission puts long - duration exploration through its paces with the safety of Earth just a few days away.

Also at this time, NASA's Mars Exploration Program began to investigate Mars with an increasing focus on missions to the Red Planet.

«I envision different partners, both international and commercial, contributing to the gateway and using it in a variety of ways with a system that can move to different orbits to enable a variety of missions,» William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C, said in a statement.

Ground - based observations of Titan, the giant planet's largest moon, helped with preparations for the Huygens probe mission early in Cassini's exploration of the Saturn system.

Dr. Stern: Let me start by saying that the normal progression in planetary exploration begins with flybys and proceeds with orbiters and more complex missions.

Astro - H is Japan's sixth X-ray astronomy mission, and is being developed at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (ISAS / JAXA) with significant collaboration from U.S. (NASA / GSFC) and Japanese institutions.

NASA is now developing a new Mars exploration strategy, Mars Next Decade, that responds to the needs of the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) as well as the Human Exploration and Operations Directorate, with input from the Office of Chief Technologist and Office of Chiefexploration strategy, Mars Next Decade, that responds to the needs of the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) as well as the Human Exploration and Operations Directorate, with input from the Office of Chief Technologist and Office of ChiefExploration and Operations Directorate, with input from the Office of Chief Technologist and Office of Chief Scientist.

William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations at NASA, has said that the experience and skills that Kelly and Kornienko have align with the mission's requirements.

With NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn expected to be complete by 2017 and another mission to study Jupiter's atmosphere likely over by 2018, the space agency will soon be short on plans for deep space exploration.

It is also expected to help validate countermeasures to reduce the risks associated with the future exploration as NASA plans for missions around the Moon, an asteroid and ultimately Mars.

She Chairs the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of NASA's Translational Research Institute (TRI) at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, charged with researching and developing innovative approaches to reduce risks to humans on long - duration exploration missions, including NASA's Journey to Mars.

With the aid of leadership and postdocs across Gladstone, GPAC has accomplished many missions, including establishing mentoring and childcare assistance programs, holding career development panels and workshops, adopting individual development plans, and founding the Exploring Careers in Industry and Technology (ExCITe) program and career exploration series which enable our trainees to learn and explore various PhD career options in peer teams.

NASA hopes the experiment will help provide future pioneers, on long - duration exploration missions, with a sustainable food supplement.

After a year of exploration, LRO's initial mission to map the Moon's surface was extended with a unique set of science objectives.

With this in mind, if you're a keen supporter of space exploration — which includes both manned and un-manned missions, the latter being arguably far more important to science — you might want to know which Presidential candidate for the 2016 elections would be most interested in helping NASA achieve its goals.

«Now, with our spacecraft transmitting the last of its data from last summer's flight through the Pluto system, we know that the next great exploration of Pluto will require another mission to be sent there.»

Dear Mars Society Supporter, It has truly been an exciting year for Mars and human space exploration with NASA's announcement of the Journey to Mars program that includes a human mission to the Red Planet, astronaut Scott Kelly starting a one - year mission on board the ISS, the highly - publicized debut of... Read More

It has truly been an exciting year for Mars and human space exploration with NASA's announcement of the Journey to Mars program that includes a human mission to the Red Planet, astronaut Scott Kelly starting a one - year mission on board the ISS, the highly - publicized debut of «The Martian» movie, the successful growth of SpaceX and the commercial space industry, and NASA's recent confirmation of water on the surface of Mars.

With a budget the fraction of the cost of a mid-size astrophysics mission, and a planned launch by early next decade, this venture represents an ambitious leap forward in low - cost, high - impact space exploration.

Artist's concept shows Jupiter spacecraft and Exoliner cargo carrier with NASA's Orion crew capsule in a Lockheed Martin dual use conceptual proposal for commercial missions to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) and deep space exploration missions to the Moon and Mars.

The mission aims to launch a lightweight space telescope to directly image exoplanets around Earth's nearest star system, Alpha Centauri A and B. With a budget the fraction of the cost of a mid-size astrophysics mission, and a planned launch by the end of the decade, this venture represents an ambitious leap forward in low - cost, high - impact space exploration.

To help further this effort, the Mars Society has created a Speakers Bureau with a list of representatives in the U.S. and Canada available to talk about the organization's mission, its work in Mars - related research, including the Mars Desert Research Station and the University Rover Challenge, the latest news about Mars exploration and the growing field of STEM - driven education and curriculum with a special focus on space exploration.

Roundabout is simply overflowing with personality, offering the best bad acting around and clever missions that even make the aggravating city exploration worth plodding through.

Open world, where you could fly to literally every part of the world, doing very unique and varied missions such as mountain climbing, jungle platforming, photo shooting, cave exploration etc. and to every mission you had to manually fly to with Launchpad McQuack.